Okay, well, first what you need to do is invest in a whole pallet of those 72-hour energy drinks, you know the ones, you can only get them at those little mom-and-pop gas stations and pharmacies, they come in a bottle about an inch high with a
tacky holographic silver label and they taste like you’re licking the abstract concept of eternity? Then you’ll need about twelve ounces of fine-ground coffee, a home distillery or a good chemistry set with a Bunsen burner, and a pack of pixie stix. Not the new fake ones, the ones they made illegal after they found out what prolonged pixie dust exposure does to kids. Then you’re going to want to –
I mean, you’re going to want to not share your girlfriend’s secret recipes on the internet. You are definitely not going to want to do that holy shit I have made a terrible mistake.
m: Yes. Yes you have.
Anyway! When I look up and the clock is blinking a number in the single digits and I’m pretty sure the last time I looked up it was light out, I turn everything off. Right away. Before I can think ‘wow it’s kind of late, where did the time go?’ I shut the tablet down and plug in my phone. On the other side of the room. If I don’t do this, I’ll still be awake refreshing the same two websites when the sun comes up.
Usually powering everything down makes me realise how tired I am, and it’s easy to get to sleep. But if I can’t for some reason, or if I wake up after a nightmare, I usually go to warm milk with lavender! Hot cocoa’s also good with lavender. I’ve heard warm baths are also great for putting people to sleep – just don’t fall asleep while you’re still in the bath.
And if all else absolutely fails, you can always distract yourself until it’s time to wake up by singing that song your boyfriend hates! Over and over and over again. That’s what he gets for telling everybody and their cat how to make Mira Fuel.
Oh, he very much is. He can grow past them, but they do tend to stick, especially if they’re reinforced later on in some way or another (i.e. Bill attempting to resurrect through Ian, using Ian’s blanket humanity as a way to get close enough to strike Dipper where it would hurt). In a way, it’s another example of how human he is: once bitten, twice shy, and the negative tends to make a greater impact on the mind than the positive.
I actually wrote two full versions of the final scene (the one that takes place in Ian’s mind), but getting Mira and Dipper down into the facility was actually the hardest part. I may have mentioned once or twice before that fight scenes are the bane of my existence?
As we all know, Mizar the Magnificent has finished it’s wonderful journey. Mysteries were solved, loose ends were tied, but as neatly as everything was explained, there is still another question left. You know which one I mean.
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